[ccp4bb]: RE: [o-info] Firewire disks and Synchrotron trips

["Bhyravbhatla, Balaji" <Balaji.Bhyravbhatla@umassmed.edu>]

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The configuration of your laptop does not matter at all. You can take
anything which has an empty PCMCIA slot. I bought a firewire PCMCIA card
(Belkin) and an external BusLink 50Gb disk. These were purchased from CDW.
So the disk then connects to the laptop via the card and you will see it
on your computer as a separate drive (on mine it is the H drive). The card 
works with all flavors of Windows.
Card was about $75.00 and the disk about $400.00 (I think), Laptop was
around $2500.00
I compared this to the other idea of taking a Snap server which was close 
to $3000.00 for an equivalent disk only.

The BusLink disk came bundled with a PCI firewire card which I installed in
my
office W2K box and the PCMCIA card on the laptop. The disk usually sits
on the computer and the laptop is with the other lab people.

We did not have to compress the data as it was below the 50Gb 
limit of the disk. So no compression. Also, our IS department has DLT drives
which we can back up over the network. So we can back them up again if need
be.


Balaji

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Phan [mailto:jphan@ncifcrf.gov]
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:08 PM
To: Bhyravbhatla, Balaji
Subject: Re: [o-info] Firewire disks and Synchrotron trips


Dear Balaji,

Thanks for the info. It sure helps a lot. Now, how does this firewire disk
work? Does it work like a zip disk or something? I have Win98 without DVD or
CD-RW. Can I use this device? Is there a software to install like Iomega?
And does it go in the USB port? Did you have to compress the data (42 gb)
before backing up? And finally how much is the disk and where do you get it?

Thanks,
jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bhyravbhatla, Balaji" <Balaji.Bhyravbhatla@umassmed.edu>
To: <ccp4bb@dl.ac.uk>; <o-info@origo.imsb.au.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: [o-info] Firewire disks and Synchrotron trips


> Hi all,
> FYI:
> We went to APS for data collection and I tried out the laptop+50Gb
firewire
> disk
> model for the data transfer. I should say it worked great.
>
> The configuration is:
> Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 with DVD/CD-RW
> 50Gb Firewire disk (external)
> W2K o/s
>
> The BioCARS beam line at APS uses DHCP so we could plug the laptop in
right
> away and
> on the last day copied (ftp) all the data from the disks on to the
firewire
> disk. We had 42Gb of data
> and no hic-cups. Carried the disk and laptop back home and plugged it into
> our network and ftp
> to the unix disk.
> I have not tried using Linux with the firewire and probably will not
bother
> as the laptop is used for teaching
> etc. and dual booting will make it more confusing for users.
>
> Just my 2cents to the community!!
>
> Balaji
>
> Balaji Bhyravbhatla
> Research Assistant Prof.
> UMASS-BMP
> Worcester, MA - 01655
>
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